Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1784106631
ISBN-13
9781784106638
Edition
2 New edition
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Imprint
Carcanet Classics
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 27th, 2018
Print length
176 Pages
Weight
208 grams
Dimensions
21.50 x 13.60 x 1.50 cms
Product Classification:
Poetry / poems by individual poetsPoetry by individual poets
Ksh 2,700.00
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Arthur Rimbaud's Illuminations reissued as a Carcanet Classic.
Arthur Rimbaud's Illuminations reissued as a Carcanet Classic Arthur Rimbaud’s Illuminations, first published in 1886, changed the language of poetry. In John Ashbery the book has a translator whose virtuosic originality brings Rimbaud’s visions alive. The ‘crystalline jumble’ of Illuminations, Ashbery writes, is still emitting pulses of energy. ‘If we are absolutely modern – and we are – it’s because Rimbaud commanded us to be.’ Ashbery relays the kaleidoscopic dazzle of the original, a Splendide Hotel ‘built amid the tangled heap of ice floes and the polar night’, where the Witch ‘will never want to tell us what she knows, and which we do not know’.
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